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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1408014/Carl-Warner.html?msockid=07dae07c82fa67be17aef58983416697
have found online but its behind a paywall , no idea how to get around that so will be next week till i post it up
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Carl Warner, who has died aged 92, was awarded an MC during the battles of Alamein when serving, as a doctor and a conscientious objector, in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
In 1933, on holiday in the Black Forest with his fiancee, Warner, a Quaker, had witnessed an unpleasant scene involving a group of Hitler Youth.
Back home at Liverpool, he then also got to know several Jewish families who had fled the Nazi regime. So when war came in 1939, Warner joined the RAMC without a second thought.
From October 1942 to February 1943, he commanded the forward dressing station of the 15th Light Field Ambulance in North Africa.
All casualties coming from brigade units and many others passed through his hands. On one day alone he dealt with 123 casualties.
Warner's complete disdain for bombing and shelling, his citation recorded, was a magnificent example to others, while his skill in giving transfusions and tending wounds saved many lives.
In April 1943, in Tunisia, he was wounded in the leg, and carried some of the shrapnel with him all his life.
Charles Whitlow Warner - always known as Carl - was born at Liverpool on April 10 1910, into a devout Quaker family.
He was educated at Parkfield School, Liverpool, then at Sidcot, a Quaker school in Somerset, where he was captain of cricket and football, and head boy. After reading Medicine at Liverpool University, he worked as house surgeon at various local hospitals.
In 1936 he became a partner in a general practice at Woolton, then a village on the outskirts of Liverpool. There, except for the period of his war service, he remained for nearly 50 years, until his retirement in 1984.
The work of the practice was mostly private, but during the worst years of the Depression Warner and his partners were sent seriously sick and malnourished patients by the Public Assistance Commission.
They worked long hours, six or seven days a week. Saturdays were busiest, because patients could attend the surgery without missing work. Cases of diphtheria were legion, frequently fatal; there were annual outbreaks of measles and scarlet fever, and many cases of pneumonia.
When Warner returned after the war, penicillin, other antibiotics and the foundation of the National Health Service were transforming the picture.
Warner also noted the changing attitudes of patients: "A culture of 'rights' was growing . . . and the NHS provided fertile soil for this culture."
Carl Warner, who died on September 1, married, in 1936, Jennie Wass; she died in 1999. Their son survives him.
